# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-drew
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:39:12.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-drew"
name: "Robert Drew"
slug: "robert-drew"
description: "Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as a pioneer—and sometimes called the father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his films, Primary (1960) and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963), were named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. In 1993 he was a recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association."
tagline: "American filmmaker (1924–2014)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zVOPjqEmup2DyDzT5y2v5ZKkmrF.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1924-02-15"
deathDate: "2014-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.04545454545454544
  historical:           10.94924533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237707/"
    handle:    "nm0237707"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.drewassociates.net/"
sources:
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    title: "رابرٹ ڈریو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت درو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Drew"
    title: "Robert Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Drew"
    title: "Robert Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رابرت درو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Drew"
    title: "Robert Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Drew"
    title: "Robert Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Drew"
    title: "Robert Drew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ロバート・デュー"
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    title: "Дрю, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1420"
    title: "Robert Drew"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump